Remains of Former Kirby Hall, and Attached Gateway, Walls and Carriage Gate Piers
REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS, KIRBY HALL ESTATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190739
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Former Kirby Hall, and Attached Gateway, Walls and Carriage Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS, KIRBY HALL ESTATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190739
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Former Kirby Hall, and Attached Gateway, Walls and Carriage Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS, KIRBY HALL ESTATE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS, KIRBY HALL ESTATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirby Hall
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45764 60918
Details
KIRBY HALL KIRBY HALL ESTATE SE 4460-4560 10/33 Remains of former Kirby 15/3/66 Hall, and attached gateway, walls and carriage-gate piers (part formerly listed as Curtain Wall at Kirby Hall) GV II Remains of country house and forecourt walls, yard gateway and carriage- gate piers. 1747-c.1755. By Lord Burlington and Roger Morris for Stephen Thompson. Limestone ashlar. House wall with angled and quadrant wall at left. 7-bay, rusticated house basement with former portico-opening in centre flanked by square window openings beneath flat arches of voussoirs. To left, yard gate in rusticated, segment-arched opening in wall with moulded cornice and ball finials. Round-headed plank door with pegged-on panelling. Forecourt walls are approximately 2.25 metres high, on plain plinth, with square-section pilaster piers and ball finials, and ramped up to yard gateway. Angled section left of yard gate is balustraded, on moulded plinth, with moulded coping. Banded rusticated, square-section carriage gate piers, approximately 4.5 metres high on moulded bases, with moulded cornices, stepped-up caps and pineapple finials. The Hall was demolished in the early 1920s and is illustrated in Vitruvius Brittanicus, Vol.V, plates 70 and 71. See also: H.Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects, 1660-1840; Country Life, 17 February, 1972,p.388; York Georgian Society Annual Reports for 1972 and 1985; York Georgian Society, The Works in Architecture of John Carr.
Listing NGR: SE4576460918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331848
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Works in Architecture of John Carr, (1973)
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Vitruvius Britannicus in Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. 5, (), Pl. 70-71
York Georgian Society Annual Report in York Georgian Society Annual Report, (1972)
York Georgian Society Annual Report in York Georgian Society Annual Report, (1985)
Country Life in 17 February, (1972), 388
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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